Abstract
Hairdressing and beauty salons are classified as personal services establishment and such services may pose potential health concerns to their clients including the risk of infection and sometimes injury. The widespread occurrence of drug resistant bacterial pathogens in hairdressing salons effluents has necessitated the need for regular monitoring of antibiotics susceptibility trends. This study examined the susceptibility pattern and plasmid profile of bacterial isolates from hairdressing salon waste water in three different locations (zones) Benin City. New Benin zone hairdressing salon effluent had the highest heterotrophic bacterial count (6.4 x103 ± 0.4 cfu/ml). Major bacterial isolates isolated from the effluent include Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus sp. Staphylococcus sp. The physico-chemical analyses showed the mean pH to be 6.3 ± 0.47 which is slightly near neutrality and the mean COD to be 127.33 ± 10.09. Result of the antibiotics susceptibility test done using Augumetin, Ofloxacin, Gentanycin, Nalidixic acid, Cotrimaxozole, Amoxycillin, Nitrofurantoin and Tetracyclin showed that the isolates had 100% resistance to Augumentin, Nalidixic acid and Cotrimaxozole. The plasmid profile of the isolates revealed absence of plasmid giving hundred percent conviction that the resistant gene in these organisms are possible located on their chromosomal genome not plasmid oriented.
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